Infant care outside of our homes is more common in our society today than at any other
time in our history.

Infants need to feel at home if they are to feel safe and relaxed.

Sachse Child Care is your child's home away from home.

Caring for infants is one of the most important jobs in our society.

Infants need and deserve prompt and consistent attention to their physical and emotional
needs from a caring adult.

At my home your child will receive excellent care and be quite happy. The differences
here are the quality of care provided by the caregiver. Good care produces secure, happy children.

INFANT SCHEDULE

Infant
schedule is quite flexible. Each infant is allowed to set their own sleeping
and feeding schedule. In addition to feeding, diapering, sleeping time, the
daily schedule allows one-on-one caregiver/infant activities appropriate to
each infant’s developmental level.

GOALS:

The children attending
my family child care program will be experiencing and learning many things as
they play. As I observe and think about the children in my care, I can set
goals appropriate for each one of them. Here are some of the goals that I use
when planning the curriculum.

Goals for Emotional Development:

Goals for Social Development:

Goals
for Physical Development:

• To be able to express
feelings.

• To acquire social skills.

• To refine sensory abilities.

• To develop a concept of
self.

• To cooperate with others.

• To develop large muscle abilities.

• To develop self-control.

• To
respect materials.

• To develop small muscle abilities.

• To develop
self-understanding.

• To respect other people.

• To develop eye-hand coordination.

• To develop a positive
self-image.

• To appreciate and value differences.

• To refine visual discrimination.

• To develop the ability to
stick with a task to completion.

• To refine listening skills.

• To
establish reading readiness

Goals for Cognitive
Development:

• To recognize objects,
people, and self.

• To imitate actions of
others.

• To develop decision-making
capabilities.

• To develop problem-solving
skills.

• To develop language skills.

• To develop planning skills.

• To develop math skills such
as matching, pairing, and classification.

• To enhance creativity.

• To begin to understand
scientific and physical concepts and math concepts such as gravity, cause and effect, balance, size, shape, color, volume
and measurement.

Things I do with infants

We play peek-a-boo or
other games in which you disappear and reappear.

I have safe places where they can crawl, creep, and pull them up.

I roll a ball or place a toy where babies have to reach or crawl for it.

I give babies toys that
squeak.

I give the babies teething toys

I point to and say the names of the babies'
mouth, ears, nose, fingers, etc.

I place toys and other colorful objects where babies can see and/or touch them.

I shake a rattle behind a baby's head and let the baby turn and grab the
rattle.